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FEDERATION MEETING APPOINTS SELECTORS FOR SEASON 2012

Posted on February 27, 2012

FEDERATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS COME OUT IN FORCE ! Sunday last was not a day of rest and relaxation for our Federation Committee Members ! We had just about a full house at the Carlton Airport Hotel in Dublin with our team travelling from Belfast, Cork and Dublin for a busy day. Present were Des Burke-Kennedy, Eileen Galvin, Brid Ferry, Robin Skelton, Andy McQuiggan, Barry Galvin, Daryl Higgins, Paurig O’Regan and …

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MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ON OUR WEBSITE

Posted on February 20, 2012

HUGE INCREASE IN UNIQUE VISITORS THIS PAST WEEKEND As our regular Website visitors will have seen recently, each of our regular NEWS items now has a set of Social Media buttons below the text. A simple CLICK on these sends that NEWS item of your choice straight to your own FaceBook page, Twitter, etc. In other words, this helps us to spread the details very quickly – via a simple …

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THREE QUALIFICATIONS AVAILABLE IN JUST ONE WEEKEND

Posted on February 13, 2012

SPECIAL FEDERATION COURSE FOR DRIVERS ON MARCH 3rd & 4th Mailings were sent to our Affiliated Clubs just one hour ago – and already NINE bookings have been received for this very special weekend on March 3/4 at the Irish Aqua Sports Centre (IASC). The entry is limited to the first 24 applicants cheques received. This Course is for those members of our Affiliated Clubs who have some prior …

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ANDY AND BOB ENJOY THE WEEKEND !

Posted on February 9, 2012

TWO VERY DIFFERENT EVENTS INVOLVE TWO OF OUR MEMBERS When New Ferry’s Andy McDonald and Golden Falls Bob Conway made plans for their last weekend calendar, both picked very different functions and both have doubts about the outcome ! Our Barefoot Record Holder Andy McDonald travelled down from New Ferry to make sure that Ireland’s Rugby team beat Wales to set us up for a great Six Nations season. As …

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WELCOME TO OUR EXCITING NEW 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD !

Posted on February 2, 2012

STRONG SOCIAL MEDIA FOCUS NOW ON OUR LATEST UPGRADE Welcome to our latest Federation upgrade. While at first glance, you may think that not a lot has changed here – look a little closer and you will see many major fundamental changes and improvements ! As you know, we have tried to do this every year. A Server issue last year spoiled the party on occasions but that …

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OUTSTANDING JUNIOR IRISH SLALOM RECORD HOLDER OF 15 YEARS AGO

Posted on January 26, 2012

IRELAND’S JOHN FOLEY Jr WAS A WORLD CLASS SLALOM SKIER To some of us, 1996 was just a few minutes ago ! Others reading this may still have been toddlers at that time. As we are now making final adjustments to the design our our soon-to-be-released upgraded Web site, one of the tasks was to locate a photo of EVERY current Irish National Record Holder. The good news …

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